RSPB annual bird watch.... anyone doing it this week end ?

[Dave7]

Mods, I can't see this thread anywhere so hope it's not duplicated.

Start tomorrow and is on for 3 days.
You choose 1 hour and any location eg your garden, local park etc
Just make a note of what birds you see within that hour.
For more info google RSPB garden bird watch.
I am doing mine Saturday morning...birds in my garden.

 

[Drago]

Nah.

 

[Dave7]

Nah.

Don't beat around the bush Drago, say what you mean.

 

[Drago]

To expand upon the conversation, I did consider it. Im not a birdist, although I do keep my bird feeder stocked at this time of year. Geddy loves watching the birds through the garden door, they fascinate him.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I might do, but we get so little in the garden at this time of year it hardly seems worth it. Some years in my allotted hour I’ve seen nothing at all. At best a dunnock, a robin, a blue tit, a coal tit, rarely more than one at a time.

 

[Dave7]

I might do, but we get so little in the garden at this time of year it hardly seems worth it. Some years in my allotted hour I’ve seen nothing at all. At best a dunnock, a robin, a blue tit, a coal tit, rarely more than one at a time.

The RSPB stress that reporting zilch is just as important as It's not a competition, it's fact finding.

 

[raleighnut]

Yep Maz will be taking part. I wonder if they'll believe 80+ sparrows though (as some of you may know we have an extended family live in the Ivy up the side of the house, Maz spends a fortune on birdseed and suet blocks to keep them fed all winter)

 

[Sharky]

Won't be taking part, but I do watch the birds sweeping down to take the bread and bits off our bird table.

I did spot, a few days ago, two of those green parrots for the very first time in our garden. They are very common in the Tooting/Streatham areas, where my daughter lived, but never this far out in Kent.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Birds round here know I got my decent camera working and since then they have been avoiding our garden!

Until then we had small groups of blue tits and sparrows fluttering around from time to time

I actually got the camera out so I could zoom in and see if there were other types in the group

but now it is just Wood Pigeons, magpies and crows

 

[Sharky]

but now it is just Wood Pigeons, magpies and crows

These seem to be the regulars in our garden as well.

I noticed that a couple of our neighbour's cats are also taking part in the "watch". They have been observing traffic landing on our bird table for a while now.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

The RSPB stress that reporting zilch is just as important as It's not a competition, it's fact finding.

Yes, so they say. If they held it at a different time of year when there’s more happening I’d be more inclined to participate. I suspect the timing is more linked to the seasonality of England than to ours.

 

[Adam4868]

Yea we are....had quite a lot of different birds this year.
Probably due to my cat getting on a bit and can't be arsed chasing them...prefers mice lately.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Last year, my mum randomly gave me a little suction cup bird feeder platform you attach to a window, but since the overgrown willow tree was chopped down ~2.5 years ago in the back garden I don't think I've seen a single bird there!

 

[raleighnut]

These seem to be the regulars in our garden as well.

I noticed that a couple of our neighbour's cats are also taking part in the "watch". They have been observing traffic landing on our bird table for a while now.

Our cats take great interest in watching the birds but never try to catch em. too well fed and the sparrows always have 'sentries' on watch a bit like avian meerkats.

 

[Venod]

The wife put some raw bacon on the bird table, a Red Kite swooped down picked some up in its claws and flew off, then came back for some more.